# Gohlman’s Life prints an unfree and dependent household around the court physician

Date: 1974

## The fact

The 1974 Life names servants, a disciple-biographer, and a household that moves with courts. It does not abolish bondage in Samanid or Buyid lands. A physician who is himself a servant of princes still sits inside unfree labour.

## Context

Hospital and library work by unfree copyists is labour, not a rights charter. Medium confidence on unique coefficients. High that the vita is a court household, not a free clinic cooperative.

Avicenna is not the sole author of every later object, law, or museum label that uses the name. Shared work with courts, excavators, printers, spouses, officials, and later states does not erase a documented role, and it does not make an ancient person the signer of a twentieth-century statute.

## Evidence and sources

The named official or archival page and the independent publisher independently describe this instrument.

Official or archival record: Gohlman, The Life of Ibn Sina (SUNY) (https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Life-of-Ibn-Sina; SUNY Press).

## Significance

A printed unfree household around a famous physician is a rights-limit, not a manumission statute.

A printed unfree household around a famous physician is a rights-limit, not a manumission statute.

## What is established and what is not

Established as a dated public record of this instrument.

What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions.

The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit.

## People

- Avicenna: https://factrail.ai/people/avicenna

## Drivers

- Protection of Minority Rights: https://factrail.ai/drivers/protection-of-minority-rights

## Sources

- https://sunypress.edu/Books/T/The-Life-of-Ibn-Sina
- https://www.britannica.com/biography/Avicenna

## Methodology

https://factrail.ai/methodology

Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/av-unfree-household-vita